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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
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February 28, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
Gilbert Burnham has just given a talk at MIT on the Lancet studies on deaths in Iraq. You can watch the video here. Some of things he mentioned: USAID (which has expertise in cluster sampling) was told to look for...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:46 AM • 4 Comments
February 27, 2007
Category: Open Thread
The previous open thread dropped off the front page, so here's a new one....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:50 PM • 40 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Conservatives and faux libertarians have been running with an attack on Al Gore from a junior version of the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- apparently he has a big house/office and it uses a lot of energy. Genuine libertarian Jim Henley...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:38 PM • 73 Comments
Category: Global Warming
SkepticLawyer has a nice round up of blog reactions to the Australian Government's plan to ban incandescent light bulbs by 2010. (As well as lot more interesting links -- check it out.) For once, I find myself agreeing with Miranda...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:26 AM • 44 Comments
February 26, 2007
Category: Global Warming
John Quiggin suggests some terminology The problem of terminology has always been difficult. It's obviously unreasonable to use terms like "skeptic" or "contrarian" to describe people who produce or swallow transparently fraudulent propaganda like that of Singer and Seitz because...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:37 PM • 35 Comments
Category: Global Warming • The War on Science
Last year I wrote about the Australian's War on Science. It's continued this year, leading Ian Musgrave to write: The Australian is Anti-Science, it's a conclusion I'm reluctant to draw, but the accumulated evidence drives me to it. Read his...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:54 AM • 8 Comments
February 24, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
The AP reports: Americans are keenly aware of how many U.S. forces have lost their lives in Iraq, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll. But they woefully underestimate the number of Iraqi civilians who have been killed. When the poll...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:37 AM • 42 Comments
February 23, 2007
Category: Global Warming
CNSNews is a news analogue of Conservapedia. They have a story arguing that An Inconvenient Truth should be disqualified from the Oscar for best documentary because it's inaccurate. CNSNews tells us: A new scientific study shows that for the first...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:02 PM • 41 Comments
February 22, 2007
Category: DDT • Global Warming
The Wall Street Journal editorial board is infamous for their reckless disregard of the evidence for global warming. They've just published an op-ed by Pete Du Pont which manages to get pretty well every single factual claim wrong. As with...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:03 PM • 13 Comments
February 21, 2007
Category:
Ed Brayton reports on Conservapedia, set up by Creationist Andrew Schlafly because he didn't like the "anti-Christian" bias of Wikipedia. Andrew Schlafly is the son of Phyllis Schlafly and legal counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:19 AM • 36 Comments
February 20, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Montreal's La Presse has published an article on the global warming skeptics' on-line war on science. (Google translation here.) I get mentioned:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:17 AM • 13 Comments
February 18, 2007
Category: Global Warming
Queensland's Land and Resources Tribunal has rejected objections to a new coal mine by environmental groups who wanted offsets for the carbon emissions of the mine. Unfortunately, the Tribunal got the science badly wrong, understating the emissions by a factor...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • 17 Comments
February 15, 2007
Category: Skeptics Circle
Akusai has put together Skeptic's Circle number 54....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:14 AM • 0 Comments
February 14, 2007
Category: LancetIraq
Les Roberts in the Independent: On both sides of the Atlantic, a process of spinning science is preventing a serious discussion about the state of affairs in Iraq. The government in Iraq claimed last month that since the 2003 invasion...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:31 PM • 53 Comments
Category: Global Warming
Back in July I mentioned that the AEI was offering $10,000 to scientists for a "review and policy critique" of the new IPCC report. This month the Guardian caused all kinds of grief for the AEI when they described these...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:15 AM • 19 Comments
February 10, 2007
Category: Bolt
You want to look away as this Andrew Bolt post comes off the rails, crashes and burns, but you can't. In his column, Alan Ramsey had quoted Tim Flannery: "What we've seen in the Arctic over the last two years...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:30 AM • 36 Comments
